Less than 60 per cent of Tories think their next leader can beat Trudeau

An underwhelming number of Conservative party members believe the leadership candidate they intend on supporting can defeat Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in 2019.

From March 28 to 31, Mainstreet reached 1,776 members and found — with a margin of error of +/- 2.32 per cent, 19 times out of 20 — that only 58.6 per cent of party members believe the candidate who they will vote for in the May 27th leadership contest can beat Trudeau in the next federal election.

Twenty-two per cent of respondents do not believe the next leader of the Conservative Party of Canada will defeat Trudeau; 19.2 per